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Odin, of the American Baptist Mission, Foochow, who says:--"There
are occasions when we must speak that awful word 'hell,' but this
should always be done in a spirit of earnest love." (_Records_ of the
Shanghai Missionary
Conference, 1877, p. 91.) It was a curious study to observe the
equanimity
with which this good-natured
man contemplates the work he has done in China, when to obtain six
dubious
conversions he has on his own confession sent
some thousands of unoffending Chinese _en enfer bouillir
eternellement_. But, if the teaching
of this good missionary is unwelcome to the Chinese, and there are
hundreds in China who teach as he does, how infinitely more
distasteful must be the teaching of both the Founder and the Secretary
of the Mission which sent him to China.
"They are God's lost ones who are in China," says Mr. C. L. Morgan,
editor of _The Christian_, "and God cares for them and yearns over
them." (_China's Millions_, 1879, p. 94.) "The millions of Chinese,"
(who have
never heard the Gospel,) says Mr. B. Broomhall, secretary of the China
Inland Mission, and editor of _China's Millions_, "where are
they going,
what is to be their

future? What is to be their condition beyond the grave? Oh, tremendous
question! It is an awful thing to contemplate--but they perish; that
is what God says." ("Evangelisation
of the World," p. 70.) "The heathen are all
guilty in God's eyes; as guilty they perish."
(_Id._, 101.) "Do we believe that these millions are without hope in
the next world? We turn the leaves of God's Word in vain, for there we
find no hope;
not only that, but positive words to the contrary. Yes! we believe
it." (_Id._, p. 199.) The Rev. Dr.

Hudson Taylor, the distinguished Founder of the Mission, certainly
believes it, and has frequently stated his belief in public. Ancestral
worship is the keystone of the religion of th